Top 80 Urban Fiction Quotes
#1. I love the grime, the real-life feel of things, the mix of dollar stores and libraries, high school students and prostitutes, little kids and dealers. What I like most about my Parkdale neighbourhood is that I can disappear.
Danila Botha
#2. She loves dogs. And in time, who knows, maybe she would even have ended up loving the type of dogs who eat other small dogs for lunch.
Leslie McNeill
Richard Finney
#3. The trick set me up. It's that simple.
Shadez
#5. Shed the pains of yesterday and seize the plans of tomorrow."
-Catherine N. Crumber
Catherine Crumber
#6. And to think of all colors in the world, blood chose to be red." ~ The Fray Theory
Nelou Keramati
#7. Pulp Fiction is a, uh, gritty, urban satire. Pump Friction is a uh-uh, a bunch of uh, dudes and ladies having dirty sex.
Norm MacDonald
#9. I'm naming my son just what he is. I'm a whore and he is my son. If he grows up ashamed of me, the hell with him. That's what I'm wantin' to name him, and that's what it's goin' to be. Whoreson!
Donald Goines
#10. As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores put them into romance, and few have stuck them into horror. I consider all my books a mix of steampunk and urban fantasy.
Gail Carriger
#11. That's the funny thing about guns; even untrained hands can feel powerful using them. But take that gun away and you're left with nothing but a coward whose only skill is how to blindly pull a trigger.
Jennifer Wilson
#12. Niko was a man of few words and flying, sugary snacks. I like that in a human. ~Catcher
Rob Thurman
#13. But believe it or not, I really do like to read. I don't think anyone can ever pull the wool over your eyes if you stay prayed up and read. Frederick Douglass said that no man can be a slave if he has knowledge.
Brandi L. Bates
#15. Dying is not a solution.. I want to live with You..!
K. Hari Kumar
#16. I refuse to live in a constant fighting match, Landon. It will not do!'
'And I've tried living without you, and it just won't do!
J.L. Sheppard
#17. She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.
Jennifer Donnelly
#19. Always have a plan, but be prepared to change it at any given moment.
K. Chrisbacher
#20. I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
Gail Carriger
#21. What I've learned is, what people want is to tell someone, anyone, their problems.
Danila Botha
#22. Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.
Ridley Scott
#23. Living is deeper than just life
Tru Lyfe
#25. She looked at him and felt a dagger pierce her heart, then she felt a warm chocolate feeling swallow her senses.
Isabelle Hardesty
#26. You and that amazing body of yours will be the cause of some too-appreciative witch's death. Maybe two witches." Or a dozen, her fire spirit hissed.
N.D. Jones
#27. In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#29. Trust her heart, Assefa, and believe in yourself. No matter the challenge, no matter the foe, be brave, be wise, be the undefeated Mngwa of lore.
N.D. Jones
#30. Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras to keep them warm.
Jennifer Donnelly
#31. I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I'm not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#32. I still tend to read more urban fantasy and romance than science-fiction, but every once in a while, a couple of books will come along and knock my socks off.
Shiloh Walker
#33. His eyes burned with intensity. I wondered briefly if someone
he knew was being held in that cold room that smelled like death. Someone he loved?
Jaye Wells
#34. He hugged me, and I let him press me against his godlike body. What? A girl should have some fun sometimes.
Jennifer Loiske
#36. Pain is an old friend who left briefly and has now returned. Starvation without sustenance, I had grown acquaint. Satiety was a stranger who invaded my deepest being, and now I cannot live without.
Melanie A. Gabbard
#37. You're not safe with me."
He cut me off, seeming to growl. "I don't want to be safe. I want to be with you. You can't do this alone.
S.G. Holster
#38. Fear is a prison in which we place ourselves. You need only to press against the bars to realize that the door is always unlocked, and you are always free to leave.
Luna DeMasi
#39. Ava glanced over at Napoleon, who was walking back toward them. She smirked at Juliet and said, "Sweetie, you are *not* the one.
Jay Fingers
#40. The man slips along the stoically congealed houses
Perpendicular
like them
A moving ornament
Burning fiction
His fragility contradicts the duration of his torments
Helene Baronne D'Oettingen
#41. You can suck the life out of someone without ever touching a drop of their blood.
Raphael Sinclair
Helen Maryles Shankman
#42. My teeth ache, my gums hurt, and my cat is tearing me apart, wanting you in every way imaginable. Your body. Your magic. Your fire spirit. Your blood.
N.D. Jones
#43. The expression 'three is a crowd' holds true for both romance and politics. A three-way race is a disaster, because it splits the ballots, making it almost impossible to gain a majority of the votes. It usually results in a runoff.
Evette Davis
#44. Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#45. Walking out into the night with a water fey was all kinds of stupid. Heck, Kelpies eat people. They may not play with their food as creatively as the Each Uisge, but dead is dead.
E.J. Stevens
#46. It's a very private moment when your heart breaks. I was thankful we were alone. I knew I couldn't keep her, but I would always do anything to protect her.
S.G. Holster
#47. I'm now requesting you refrain from calling me this early in the morning, before I've had a chance to steel my defenses against hearing you utter the word 'lizard.'"
-- spoken by Dr. Jeri Asheer... to Chris Dixon.
Richard Finney
#48. Guilt doesn't follow the rules of time. Most things fade with time, regret, eyesight, memories. But guilt feeds on time, and as it feeds, it grows, and when it runs out of time, it begins to gnaw on the guilty.
J.D. Mason
#49. Let the spirits guide you, but never let them take you.
E.J. Stevens
#50. Secret Saturdays ought to be required reading at middle schools everywhere. Maldonado gives us both voice and heart. His young characters navigate a challenging world with endearing earnestness, lively style, and a heartening desire for true friendship and dignity.
E.R. Frank
#51. Hated each other so much their feud had become legendary. Half the jokes in the galaxy started with a vampire and an otrokar walk into a bar ... .
Ilona Andrews
#52. This is the right time
They are the right people
Will it be enough for mankind?
From "The Rishis: Book of Secrets.
Robert Delgado
#54. Despite what you think you know, most people don't want to fight, especially when evenly matched. ... That's why you see those pissed young men doing the dance of "don't hold me back" while desperately hoping someone likes them enough to hold them back.
Ben Aaronovitch
#55. Love isn't easy. It isn't perfect like in stories or movies--but it's real. When we feel it, it reminds us we are alive, and when we truly feel it--it hurts like hell--but it reminds us why we live... For the hope of love.
N.A. Koziol
#56. Louis-Cesare slowly pulled himself into a half-standing position against the side of the winery.'What? Did you think one little mage was going to do me in?' He swallowed hard. 'Hell, that was just a warm-up.
Karen Chance
#57. If this is where you ask me to run around in my birthday suit, I'm not entirely comfortable with that, I said, smirking.
Laura Kreitzer
#58. Jake's in trouble.'
Luca rolled his eyes. 'What now?'
'He's gone off somewhere, I think I know where, and I don't think it's good.'
'Cant that boy ever stay in and watch telly like the rest of us?
Sharon Sant
#59. What does it take to get you on board with building this district to mirror Coral Gables or the Hamptons?
Thomas Barr Jr.
#60. Dear God, please help me to be the kind of person who my dogs think I am.
Jerrie Brock
#61. I guess I should thank you for totally making my morning. It's not every day a stranger notices my perspiration level.
- Dr. Jeri Asher (BLACK MARIAH - A Calling)
Richard Finney
#62. Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?
Alexia Purdy
#63. Family is a permanent adhesive that creates a lifetime bond.
Conrad Brooks
#64. With him I couldn't be anything but myself and that scared the crap out of me, because I had never existed like that before.
Carlyle Labuschagne
#66. Before we go on from here, I just want to say," he paused and took a step closer to me and reached his hand out to my heart. "What I should have said back on the plane is I know you're real." His eyes narrowed, "I'll always fight for you, Lexi, in my own way.
S.G. Holster
#67. Writing is emotional ... it is baring your soul to the world and waiting for someone to acknowledge and love it, or shun and hate it, or worse be indifferent about it.
Anne-Rae Vasquez
#68. Keep The Drama In Your Books, Not Your Life." - The Cartel Publications.
T. Styles
#69. All I see is my father's tax money being wasted on shooting satellite pictures of South America like you guys work for the Travel Channel.
Todd Dooley (BLACK MARIAH - A Calling)
Richard Finney
#70. Worlds need those pockets, the urban closets that hide the skeletons of a modern society.
S.A. Check
#71. As far as I'm concerned, you're changing the fate of another human being. Maybe he isn't meant to be elected to office. Maybe humans deserve to live with electing the wrong person.
Evette Davis
#72. Emma was doing something nice for Simon? Hell must be enjoying the snow day.
E.J. Stevens
#74. I'm the muhfucka that did this to you! If y'all don't know me, you better get to know me, or fuck around and wind up wit' a hole in your forehead.
Brooklyn June
#75. She smells of her cooking and the perfume Eau d'Hadrien. My mother wore it, too. She used to cook, like Lili. Our house smelled of garlic and thyme instead of sadness.
Jennifer Donnelly
#76. There's something electric about someone believing you're the real deal.
Danila Botha
#77. It's history as it should have happened. It's history made better.
R.A. McCandless
#78. ... my books are derived from city images, and the city of my dreams or nightmares is Mexico City. (The Art of Fiction, No. 68. The Paris Review, No. 82, Winter 1981.)
Carlos Fuentes
#79. Although this man spoke pure fluent ghetto, she liked his spirit. She could tell he was attracted to her, and that he was being ever careful with his words.
Brandi L. Bates
#80. He may be stronger, but I'm not defenseless. He knows that, of coarse. That's why he's here. He wants me for what I can do after all.
Sophie Jordan
